Main Street opens after cruiser crash

Wednesday

Jul 17, 2013 at 9:02 AMJul 17, 2013 at 10:40 AM

T&G Staff/DAN GOULD

WORCESTER - Traffic on Main Street at Chandler Street is back to normal after being detoured this morning while authorities investigated a collision between a Worcester police cruiser and a Clark University pickup. The drivers appear to have escaped serious injury in the crash, which occurred about 8 a.m. Both were taken to the hospital. The cruiser was traveling south on Main Street and the pickup east on Chandler Street.

One of the witnesses interviewed by police, Richie Robertson, was standing outside his apartment building on Main Street when he saw the accident. He said it appeared that the officer in the cruiser was stopped at a red light and had started to head south when the collision occurred.

"It was just a freaky accident,” Mr. Robertson said.

The cruiser sustained heavy damage on the passenger side, with the front tire coming to a stop on a curb, narrowly missing a pole. The truck sustained heavy front-end damage.